Cast: Masakazu Kuwayama

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Emiko Aizawa · Masumi Harukawa · Sachiko Hidari · Daizaburo Hirata

Plot Tome was born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. She is molested from childhood by her stepfather. As a young adult she moves from her rural village...

Direction Katsumi Nishikawa

Cast Momoe Yamaguchi · Tomokazu Miura · Moeko Ezawa · Akiko Kazami

Plot Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the memory of...

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Shima Iwashita · Chieko Baisho · Mikijiro Hira · Noboru Nakaya

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Chieko Baisho · Osamu Takizawa · Michiyo Aratama · Yusuke Kawazu

Plot Kiriko attempts to hire a well-known lawyer to defend her brother's murder case. The lawyer turns Kiriko down as she cannot afford him. Some time later, Kiriko encounters the lawyer...

Direction Shirô Moritani

Cast Ken Takakura · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Tomokazu Miura · Naoko Otani

Plot In 1954, Go Akuzu (Ken Takakura) travels to the Tsuruga Straits that separate Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido from the island of Honshu, to investigate the tragic loss of a...

Direction Akira Katô

Cast Tomiko Adachi · Shin'ichi Etô · Jûkei Fujioka · Manabu Fujita

Plot The final battle of Osaka Apache vs. Tokyo Metz was done in the Kokubunji stadium in Yaji and the shameful. This match was also a retirement game of Major 's...

Direction Chusei Sone

Cast Maria Mitsui · Morihei Murakuni · Melka Seri · Yôko Azusa

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Noboru Andô · Kiyoshi Atsumi · Taiji Tonoyama · Muga Takewaki

Plot Shochiku’s popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and gold-smugglers. But he also aids and...